Post by B on Mar 14, 2011 7:07:08 GMT -5
Augustus Owsley Stanley III, LSD Chef Also Known as Bear, is Dead at 76
www.hartfordadvocate.com/the-blood-of-the-lamb/augustus-owsley-stanley-iii-lsd-chef-also-known-as-bear-is-dead-at-76-063015
By Michael Hamad
Sunday, March 13, 2011 4:26pm
Owsley "Bear" Stanley, who got countless people turned on to the psychedelic experience in the mid-1960s with LSD produced in his Bay Area lab, died in a car crash on Sunday near his home in north Queensland, Australia, according to a Reuters report.
Stanley served as the Grateful Dead's sound man for several years and was largely responsible for the massive Wall of Sound amplification setup the band used in the mid-'70s. He also chronicled the Dead's live shows; the album History of the Grateful Dead, Vol. 1 (Bear's Choice) was released on Warner Bros. Records in 1973 as a tribute to the band's original keyboardist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.
The incident was Tweeted by John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead lyricist and Wyoming rancher, who referred to Stanley as an "Acid King, Annealer of the Grateful Dead, & Master Crank" who died "with his boots on."
Stanley gave few interviews, but here's a brief chat that's said to be Bear talking with an Australian radio host in 1994:
Bear Owsley speaks on Australian talk back radio 1995
www.hartfordadvocate.com/the-blood-of-the-lamb/augustus-owsley-stanley-iii-lsd-chef-also-known-as-bear-is-dead-at-76-063015
By Michael Hamad
Sunday, March 13, 2011 4:26pm
Owsley "Bear" Stanley, who got countless people turned on to the psychedelic experience in the mid-1960s with LSD produced in his Bay Area lab, died in a car crash on Sunday near his home in north Queensland, Australia, according to a Reuters report.
Stanley served as the Grateful Dead's sound man for several years and was largely responsible for the massive Wall of Sound amplification setup the band used in the mid-'70s. He also chronicled the Dead's live shows; the album History of the Grateful Dead, Vol. 1 (Bear's Choice) was released on Warner Bros. Records in 1973 as a tribute to the band's original keyboardist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.
The incident was Tweeted by John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead lyricist and Wyoming rancher, who referred to Stanley as an "Acid King, Annealer of the Grateful Dead, & Master Crank" who died "with his boots on."
Stanley gave few interviews, but here's a brief chat that's said to be Bear talking with an Australian radio host in 1994:
Bear Owsley speaks on Australian talk back radio 1995